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Trick of the Eye

Helen Pizzey
Tribute to Purbeck ar st, James Fry 1911-1985

I’m an illusion of light,

dappled dot of pigment
running with a southerly breeze,

merging into heather
and fading into sand;

invisible in me

and space

were it not for the
eye of the ar st

who paints me
naked and with wings,

seeing me as a livid dash
of eye-catching water,

skin the colour of wind,

body outstretched and brushed

across a canvas of sable sky.

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